ethnos

Other forms of ethnos

plural

ethnoses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ethnos

What does ethnos mean?

ethnos means "people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture".

How many syllables are in ethnos?

ethnos has 2 syllables: eth-nos. The stress falls on "eth". In IPA it is /ˈɛθnoʊs/.

What is another word for ethnos?

Close synonyms include ethnic group. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ethnos a common word?

ethnos is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.